Mail Archives: geda-user/2015/12/29/23:36:10
On Tue, 29 Dec 2015, John Doty wrote:
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> On Dec 29, 2015, at 2:32 PM, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
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>>> You don?t have to make unwelcome changes to extend the toolkit. That?s an advantage of a toolkit. Use it.
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>> Unwelcome wagon?
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> New construction is welcome. Dynamiting a foundation to make an opening because you don?t want to use the door is not.
Having a huge house with no door. Want someone to rent it.
Enter: Customer
You climb in through the window, as if it was the most natural thing in
the world. Customer asks whether there could be a door, just a small one,
somewhere back, where you don't even see it. He assures you won't even
need to use it ever.
NO! That's too integrated! Rent a toolkit instead! What, you want to
dynamite all the walls and foundations and destroy the world? Do you
realize that the slightest manipulation of any of the walls would turn the
solar system into a black hole?
Customer: ok, so what about just enlarging this window by 10% so I can get
in easier?
(verse: all the above reasoning with integrated vs toolkit, repeat
four times)
Leave: customer.
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